The Hardware Behind AI: Where's the Real Bottleneck?

The Hardware Behind AI: Where's the Real Bottleneck? · Luma

Pui San Tam, Kimberly Blakemore and 32 others

The Hardware Behind AI: Where's the Real Bottleneck?

Hosted by Consulate General of the Netherlands in San Francisco

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The Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in San Francisco is hosting a networking session and Dutch–U.S panel on the hardware behind AI's explosive scaling. As demand for compute outruns traditional transistor scaling, the bottleneck has shifted to silicon itself — how fast chips can be designed, how efficiently they're architected, how densely they're packaged, and how precisely they're manufactured. Bringing together established leaders and agile startups from both countries, the discussion explores how complementary U.S. and Dutch strengths across the chip value chain.

Food & drinks will be included during the event.

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Ivo Bolsens – Director of SystemX at Stanford University

He retired from AMD as CTO & Senior VP of Corporate Research and Advanced Development, where he led hardware and software technology development. He came to AMD through the 2022 Xilinx acquisition, having joined Xilinx in 2001 and served as its CTO for corporate research. Before that he was a vice president at IMEC in Belgium, leading R&D in digital signal processing hardware and software and spinning out several successful startups in SoC design tools and wireless systems. He serves on the advisory boards of IMEC and ASML, the engineering departments of San José State and Santa Clara University, and UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and holds a Ma